Theatre and Prison

CAOIMHE MCAVINCHEY is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She was a Research Associate with People's Palace Projects (PPP) and has collaborated on a number of large scale projects on the criminal justice system in Brazil and the UK including Staging Human Rights and Changing the Scene.

• Series Editors' PrefaceForeword by James ThompsonThe Performance of PunishmentTheatre about PrisonTheatre in PrisonFurther ReadingIndexAcknowledgements.

'A superb contribution to our understanding of the historical and contemporary approaches of prison theatre. A must read for those interested in the power of in the applied theatre, especially within incarcerated populations' - Philip Taylor, Director, New York University's Program in Educational Theatre